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Others a^ain, deceived by appearances or the false 

 representations of designing men, have disbursed con- 

 siderable sums, and wasted much time, iiT the useless 

 search for metah, when a metallurgist would at once 

 have pronounced that no ore existed, or that it was one 

 too poor to be profitable. 



To assist, therefore, in obtaining a full knowlege of 

 the medical and dying drugs indigenous to our soil ; to 

 expedite the discovery of useful metals ; to aid the ma- 

 nufactures of their country, as far as they are connected 

 therewith ; and to remove the inconveniences and disad- 

 vantages of ind vidualsnot possessing an acquaintance 

 with natural knowlege, the Linnean Society of Phila- 

 delphia has directed the undersigned committee to give 

 this public notice, that any plants, ores, or any mineral 

 substance whatever, which shall be forwarded to any 

 member of the committee, shall be examined by the bo- 

 tanical and mineralogcal departments of the society. 

 The result of the examination shall be communicated, as 

 soon as completed, to the person transmitting such spe- 

 cimens, together with such other information relative to 

 its nature and uses, which the society can impart 



SAMUEL JACKSON, 1 



JAMES CUTBUSIi, ^Committee. 



SAxMUEL BENEZET,) 



Aurora. 



KENTUCKY MANUFACTURES. 



Exfract of a letter from a ge nthman in LexmQ;ion. Ken. 



to his friend in Charleston, S. C. dated May 1, 1810. 



*' Hemp is becoming the grand staple of Kentucky. 

 In this town there are now at work 9 rope walks ; each 

 consumes annua'ly one hundred tons of hemp; 4 cotton 

 bagging factories, consumption 60 tons of hemp each; 

 one factory of sail cloth; in the whole about 1200 tons 

 of hemp, prime cost 150,000 dollars, employing 400 

 hands, principally men and boys, and producing to the 



